Genocide in Cote d'Ivoire?

Events are pushing toward genocide in Cote d'Ivoire.

Charles Ble Goude is out in full force, stirring up the unemployed young men. His main message is "Foreigners, OUT!". Ble Goude is highly gifted: he speaks good English, he has written a book, and he knows how to work a crowd. He is also Gbagbo's henchman. After the civil war, he and his followers trashed European food production plants. Everything Ble Goude does is following a Gbagbo script.

Approximately 470 Dioula (Burkinabe/Malians) were wrenched from their homes, murdered, and mass-buried this weekend.

Gbagbo and his followers want the foreigners OUT. Probably so they can complete the ultimate mission, which is to rid the country of Dioula. It was Houphouet-Boigny who welcomed millions of Dioula in--a ready workforce to propel Côte d'Ivoire past Ghana as the world's largest producer of cocoa beans.

The question is, will the Europeans/Americans/UN cop out as they did in Rwanda? Will they trump up some pretext for leaving? Will Obama, like Clinton, feign surprise?

Will the world allow Gbagbo to murder Ouattara and then begin the long process of ethnic cleansing?

Each day brings new events and each day, the situation becomes a little more clear.

In my opinion, there is no Cote d'Ivoire, no Ivory Coast. There never was. The line that crosses the country just south of Bouake was real in the 1930s, and it is just as real today. Where the jungle stops, that's where the "other" start.

Where are ADM, Cargill, Barry-Callebaut, Saf-Cacao in this mess? They are feeling a lot of fear right about now. And they are glad that they have invested in South America (Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador) and Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Indonesida, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia). We looove Hugo!